• Inditex reported a nine-month EBIT slightly ahead of expectations.
  • Walgreens Boots Alliance restarts talks on the potential sale of Boots in the UK, with a price of £7 billion mooted.
  • BAE Systems retains a major ammunition stockpile management contract in the US, worth up to $8.8 billion over 10 years.
  • Amazon seeks dismissal of lawsuit over Kuiper satellite launch contracts.
  • Take-Two to replace Seagen in Nasdaq 100.
  • Netflix publishes its viewing data for the first time.
  • ASML and Samsung to invest $760m in new plant in South Korea.
  • The Carlyle Group considers selling Acrotec, which could be valued at CHF 4 bn, according to Bloomberg.
  • The merger between Novozymes and Christian Hansen receives EU green light after proposed sale of assets.
  • Lucid falls on the stock market after CFO Sherry House resigns.
  • L3Harris suspends M&A program to strengthen balance sheet.
  • Shell makes an investment decision for staged drilling campaign in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • General Motors and Komatsu collaborate on hydrogen fuel cell-powered mining truck.
  • SpaceX's valuation approaches $180 billion at the latest round of financing, slightly higher than expected.
  • Pfizer posted a sales forecast of between $58.5 and $61.5 billion for 2024, compared with an average analyst estimate of $63.17 billion. It also raised its cost reduction target by $500 million.
  • Mastercard, Visa - The British payments regulator proposed on Wednesday to cap the fees charged by the two American groups to retailers and other businesses on transactions between the UK and the European Union.
  • Tesla will recall just over two million vehicles in the US to install new devices to prevent misuse of its Autopilot driver assistance system.
  • Uber - The European Parliament and the bloc's member states provisionally agreed Wednesday on a draft law to grant digital platform workers more rights, which, if passed, would be a world first. The new rules will prevent companies from misclassifying workers as self-employed and thus depriving them of benefits.
  • Apollo - The private equity firm is considering a bid for UK insurer Pension Insurance Corporation in a deal that could value the company at around £5 billion ($6.26 billion), Sky News reported.
  • Rocket Lab said on Tuesday that it was ready to launch its Electron rocket as early as December 15, carrying a Japanese satellite, which would be the rocket's first flight since its failed mission in September.